Word: walle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wall in the living room of Steve Potysman's suite in Quincy House is an enormous moose head. It has a Harvard golf cap on, tin foil in its eye sockets and a telephone receiver dangling from its antlers in the region of its left ear. Is this something that is passed on to this room year after year? "Poty" is asked...
When officials of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service decided to build two new stretches of wall, totaling 12.5 miles, along the 1,950-mile Mexican border, they thought they were merely mending fences, not wrecking U.S.-Mexican relations. After all, the reason an estimated 1 million Mexicans enter the U.S. illegally each year is that most existing fences have been knocked down, shot full of holes or simply hauled away. Indeed, the new barriers might have gone up unnoticed had not the builders boasted that "anyone barefoot" seeking to climb over the razor-sharp wall would "leave...
...Immigration and Naturalization Service has sent engineers back to the drawing board to eliminate the wall's "inhumane features." They did not, however, accept the satirical advice of Editorialist Sierra: "The fence should be constructed so it will not scrape or cut and it should be built by Mexican labor. After all, Mexicans know how to weave very well. Remember our baskets...
...some good news about U.S. industry's competitive strength. In the third quarter of this year, according to a poll of 548 large companies by the Wall Street Journal, average aftertax profits were up by 21%, compared with the same period last year. Airlines and the steel industry posted big increases; General Motors' net income rose by 31% to $528 million, its highest quarterly earnings ever...
Inevitably, the project came under fire, especially during the later years of construction. A religious journal complained that "a pilgrim church cannot spend its time, thought and money on monumental buildings." An anonymous critic painted on an outside wall: "Christ was poor and homeless. Two-thirds of humanity starve...